Memorial Days

Name: Memorial Days
Author: Geraldine Brooks
ISBN: 9780593654002

Geraldine Brooks

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Memorial Days

Geraldine Brooks

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#2177 of 3,809 books · #781 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2025).

Memorial Days won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2025, a Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025, and a Time Best Memoir of 2025. A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz – just sixty years old – collapsed and died. After spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, Geraldine and Tony settled down to raise two boys on Martha's Vineyard. But all of this ended abruptly when, on Memorial Day 2019, Geraldine received the phone call we all dread. The demands were immediate and many. Without space to grieve, the sudden loss became a yawning gulf. Three years later, she flew to a remote island off the coast of Australia to finally give herself time to mourn. A spare and profoundly moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life man and a timeless love between souls that exquisitely captures the joy, agony, and mystery of life.

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